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T. B. DE FOREST.

TOY WIND WHEEL.

No. 390,655. Patented Oct. 9, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS BURLOGK DE FOREST, OF BIRMINGHAM, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF TO WALTER H. FOX, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TOY WIND-WHEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,655, dated October 9, 1888.

Application filed February 23, 1888. Serial No. 264,930.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS BURLOOK DE FOREST, a citizen of the United States, residing at Birmingham, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Wind- WVheels; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvementsin toy wind-wheels, and has for its object to provide a toy of this description which may be caused to revolve by rapid movement in the air, after the manner of the ordinary paper wind-wheels used by children, but which may be also caused to spin rapidly by the action of the breath, as will be hereinafter more fully explained.

With these ends in view my invention consists particularly in the employment, in connection with the paper Wheel mounted upon the rotatable head, of the hollow tube like handle, and generally in the details of construction presently to be set forth, and then recited in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a perspective; Fig. 2, a section through the hollow handle, and Fig. 3 a section showing the rotatable head secured upon the extremity of the wire.

Like reference numbers denote the same parts in all the figures.

1 represents a hollow tube or pipe, which also serves as a handle whereby the toy may be manipulated or carried.

2 is a curved wire, one end of which is secured to the extremity of the tube 1, and upon the other end of which is supported a head or knob, 3. Ihis head may be readily turned about the wire as an axis.

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4is the wheel,which may be made of paper 5 or other suitable substance, and 5 is a pin whereby said wheel is connected to the head 3, and whereon it is free to revolve.

By turning the head upon the wire so that the face of the wheel is toward the tube, as

seen at Fig. l, the said wheel may, by force of the breath blown through the tube, be caused to revolve rapidly upon its pivot. By turning the head so that the face of the wheel is away from the tube, as indicated by the detail 5 5 section, Fig. 3, the wheel may be made to rorate swiftly by moving it rapidly through the air, as by running. If the head be turned so that the axis of the wheel is transverse to the longitudinal plane of the tube,then the wheel may be made to turn by swinging the toy from side to side, and, if desired,two wheels may be attached, one upon either side of the head.

I am aware that rotating toys propelled by the breath are not broadly new, and I do not therefore desire to be understood as laying claim to any and every embodiment of the principle which I have herein applied.

WhatIdo claim as my invention is 1. The combination,with thehollow handle, of a support or head arranged in line with said handle, said head capable ofbeing turned to different planes, and a wind-wheel pivotally secured to said head,whereby the wheel may bepresented to the air at different angles, sub- 7 stantially as set forth.

2. The combination,with the hollow handle, of the bent wire support secured to the end thereof, the revoluble head mounted upon the end of the wire, and the wind-wheel pivotally connected to the head, all arranged as described, and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' THOMAS BURLOCK DE FOREST.

Witnesses:

S. H. HUBBARD, M. JOSEPH FOLEY, 

